Quadro K5000 with AW14???

Hey guys, I would like to ask your opinions on the Quadro K5000. I am currently buying a year old Alienware 14 2013 version from a guy for a price of £500. However, he made it known to me that it is equipped with a Quadro K5000 and an Intel i7 3630 processor, 12 gig ram and 720GB HDD. How is it possible that the AW14 has a K5000?

From what I read, the Quadro K5000 is a workstation graphics card and is not used for gaming. I will primarily be using this laptop for studies and gaming, particularly for Dark Souls II, which just came out!

I am unable to find benchmark scores for it running on DSII. Do you think this would be good enough to run DSII on high settings? Would it be a good buy for gaming? I am still unsure how this AW14 is equipped with the K5000. It is supposedly new in a box too. Perhaps it is a custom order? Could someone give me some advice?

Thanks and much appreciated!

edit: this sounds like a scam again. doesn't make sense lol. when I look up the K5000, it is an extremely expensive GPU

 

Sorry mate the 14 does not have a K5000 option. its a gaming laptop hence uses only gaming GPUs. I would say its a scan

 

First of all the quadro k5000 is a desktop grade graphics card. you won't fit, nor have enough power to put it on a laptop. A laptop motherboard doesn't even have a standard pci-express slot like a desktop. 2nd of all I have never seen a laptop with a quadro processor so far (maybe there are, but not that I know of).

Now about Dark Souls II. I tried that game out on my 1st generation alienware 14 which has a Geforce 555m GT 3GB DDR3. I set texture details at max, resolution at max (1600x900), anisotropic filtering at max, motion blur on, depth of field on, ... I only set the following things off Moution blur off. SSAO off, shadows low, can't remember if there was vsync option, but if there is, I'm pretty sure I disabled that.

With all these setting when starting the game it was straight off running at 60fps. I reached a bigger area fps dropped to 39 fps min. So yeah. did not bad at all. But I'm personally not a fan of the game so I stopped playing right after.

 

Sounds extremely dodgy to me. The 14 does not even have the ability to have ANY MXM card installed into it because the graphics are soldered on to the motherboard. End of story. Even if the 14 HAD an MXM slot, running something like the K5100m (M for Mobile variant) would be unlikely because it is a 100w card and generally, high TDP cards are suited to larger machines with larger PSU's and possibly better cooling systems. The 14's cooling is good, but even the best GPU option right now (GTX 765m) puts it to the test at a mere 60-65w. Mobile solutions that carry Quadro cards are generally mobile workstations, such as Dell Precision notebooks - they also are bigger than the 14 for the reasons mentioned.

Another dodgy thing is that he says it comes with a 3630qm ? - ALL 14's sport Haswell 4th generation 4xxx chips, not IvyBridge 3xxx (3rd gen) chips.

If you NEED a Quadro solution, look at the Precision range. As for gaming on a Quadro, yes, you can. Performance may not be up to high end dedicated gaming cards like the GTX 880m, but you can still have respectable fun. The K5100m would provide a great gaming solution and it's performance is probably on par with a GTX 780m. See here: NVIDIA Quadro K5100M - NotebookCheck.net Tech

As for the 14 you've been offered, I'd give it a wide berth....

 

It's impossible to have that installed on it. He could be trying to scam you.

 

Yes, this is fishy, the M14 has a soldered GPU and cannot be upgraded unless you swap the entire motherboard out. Also, it can't ever have the K5000, ever

 

Thanks for all the reply guys. I didn't pay him the money and declined to deal thanks to all your advice.